Polling for Senate elections 2018 across the four provincial assemblies and National Assembly on Saturday started from 9.00 am to elect 52 lawmakers out of 135 candidates who have filed nomination papers and is expected to conclude without a break at 4.00pm.
A private news channel reported that a total of 131 candidates are contesting 52 Senate seats from the provinces, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the federal capital.
Rangers and Frontier Constabulary personnel have been deployed outside the provincial assemblies and Parliament.
The four provincial assemblies vote for their representatives, whereas the FATA senators are elected by the MNAs from the tribal areas and the Islamabad senators by the National Assembly members.
A total of 20 candidates are contesting 12 seats from Punjab, 33 on 12 seats from Sindh, 26 on 11 seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 25 on 11 seats from Balochistan, 24 on four seats from FATA and five on two seats from Islamabad.
In the National Assembly, Federal Defence Production Minister Rana Tanveer was the first in line to cast the vote for the senators from Islamabad.
